stiff paper wrappers
1996 · Providence
by Quinn, David Beers
Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 1996. stiff paper wrappers. Drake, Sir Francis. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 93+(1) pages. With a Bibliographical Supplement by Burton Van Name Edwards. One of the greatest of British historians, David Beers Quinn, reviews in this essay some of the controversies swirling around Drake in his lifetime and brings to light the grudging admiration in which Drake was held by many Spaniards, in spite of his destructiveness to Spanish interest. With a bibliographical supplement describing more than 100 printed sources in the Library relating to Drake. (Inventory #: 54023)